Los Angeles Times: California's free-for-all primaries have left things unsettled, but voters don't want to go back to the old ways

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The home stretch of California’s statewide primary election is here, and all the big questions in this political season have one thing in common. They begin with the disruptive nature of the top-two primary, an electoral juggernaut that the political party leaders hate and the candidates treat,...

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